Family
מִשְׁפָּחָהStrong’s H4940mishpachah (mish-pa-chah)
Appears in 224 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mishpachah is the Hebrew word usually translated “clans their”, “clan of” and “clans of”. It appears in 224 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;”
Meaning
- Clan, familyclan · guild · species, kind · aristocrats
How it's translated
- to clans their 84
- clan of 78
- clans of 46
- from clan of 6
- clans 6
- and clan of 5
- of clans of 5
- from clans of 5
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 94
- Joshua 42
- 1 Chronicles 19
- Genesis 12
- Jeremiah 9
- Judges 8
21 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 12:13In contextThe family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart;
- Zechariah 12:14In contextAll the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.
- Zechariah 14:17In contextAnd it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain.
- Zechariah 14:18In contextAnd if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no rain; there shall be the plague, wherewith the LORD will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
- Genesis 8:19Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark.
- Genesis 10:5By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
All 224 verses, by book
- Numbers 94
- 1:21:181:201:221:241:261:281:301:321:341:361:381:401:422:343:153:183:193:203:213:233:273:293:303:333:353:394:24:184:224:244:284:294:334:344:364:374:384:404:414:424:444:454:4611:1026:526:626:726:1226:1326:1426:1526:1626:1726:1826:2026:2126:2226:2326:2426:2526:2626:2726:2826:2926:3026:3126:3226:3426:3526:3626:3726:3826:3926:4026:4126:4226:4326:4426:4526:4726:4826:4926:5026:5726:5827:127:427:1133:5436:136:636:836:12
- Deuteronomy 1
- 29:18
- Joshua 42
- 6:237:147:1713:1513:2313:2413:2813:2913:3115:115:1215:2016:516:817:218:1118:2018:2118:2819:119:819:1019:1619:1719:2319:2419:3119:3219:3919:4019:4821:421:521:621:721:1021:2021:2621:2721:3321:3421:40
- Nehemiah 1
- 4:13
- Esther 1
- 9:28
- Ezekiel 1
- 20:32
- Micah 1
- 2:3
- Nahum 1
- 3:4
Hebrew dictionary
מִשְׁפָּחָה mishpachah · family
1) clan, family 1a) clan 1a1) family 1a2) tribe 1a3) people, nation 1b) guild 1c) species, kind 1d) aristocrats
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “family” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FAM'ILY, noun
[Latin familia.]
- The collective body of persons who live in one house and under one head or manager; a household, including parents, children and servants, and as the case may be, lodgers or boarders.
- Those who descend from one common progenitor; a tribe or race; kindred; lineage.
- Course of descent; genealogy; line of ancestors.
- Honorable descent; noble or respectable stock.
All definitions
- A collection or union of nations or states.
- In popular language, an order, class or genus of animals or of other natural productions, having something in common, by which they are distinguished from others; as, quadrupeds constitute a family of animals, and we speak of the family or families of plants.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.